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Tables of Contents for Atlas of the Prehistoric World
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
8
4
The Changing Globe
The Changing Face of the Earth
12
2
Vendian Times
14
2
Early Cambrian Times
16
2
Late Cambrian Times
18
2
Ordovician Times
20
2
Silurian Times
22
2
Devonian Times
24
2
Carboniferous Times
26
2
Permian Times
28
2
Triassic Times
30
2
Jurassic Times
32
2
Early Cretaceous Times
34
2
Later Cretaceous Times
36
2
K-T Times
38
2
Early Tertiary Times
40
2
Mid-Tertiary Times
42
2
Late Tertiary Times
44
2
Quaternary Times
46
4
Ancient Worlds
The Origin of Life
50
4
Aquatic Microbes: Life Begins
52
2
The Vendian Period
54
4
Complex Organisms Emerge
56
2
Cambrian Explosion
58
4
Early Cambrian Marine Life
60
2
Late Cambrian Period
62
6
The Burgess Seaworld
64
2
Pikaia---Our Ancestor?
66
2
The Ordovician Period
68
4
Life in the Ordovician Seas
70
2
The Silurian Period
72
4
Life on Land and in the Sea
74
2
The Devonian Period
76
4
Equipping Life for Land
78
2
Carboniferous Age
80
6
The First Tetrapods
82
2
Coal and Reptiles
84
2
The Permian Age
86
6
Ancient Mammal Relatives
88
2
Mass Extinctions
90
2
The Triassic Period
92
6
Dawn of the Dinosaurs
94
2
Reptilian Domination
96
2
The Jurassic Period
98
10
Reptiles of the Jurassic Seas
100
2
Discovering Extinction and Deep Time
102
2
Life Takes to the Air
104
2
Early Mammals
106
2
Early Cretaceous Period
108
6
The World of the Iguanodon Dinosaur
110
2
Inventing and Picturing the Dinosaurs
112
2
Later Cretaceous Period
114
8
The Mammals and Dinosaurs of Mongolia
116
2
Hadrosaurs and Carnosaurs
118
2
The Beast of Maastricht
120
2
The K-T Boundary
122
8
The Last of the Dinosaurs
124
2
Impact from Outer Space
126
2
Victims and Survivors
128
2
Early Tertiary Age
130
8
Plants and Animals of Messel
132
2
Opening the North Atlantic
134
2
The Evolution of Plants and Flowers
136
2
Mid-Tertiary Period
138
6
Riversleigh Marsupials
140
2
The Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau
142
2
Late Tertiary Period
144
8
Hominids and Other Mammals
146
2
Mammals of the Americas
148
2
Divergence of Apes and Hominids
150
2
The Quaternary Age
152
10
The Russian Mammoth Steppe
154
2
The Human Journey
156
2
Beyond the Ice Age
158
4
Earth Fact File
Earth History
162
8
The Geological Timescale
164
2
Methods of Dating: Innovations and Discoveries
166
2
Geological Controversies
168
2
Rock
170
4
Metamorphic and Sedimentary Rock
172
2
Earth Processes: Plate Tectonics
174
12
Earthquakes and Tsunamis
176
2
Volcanoes
178
2
Sedimentation
180
2
The Present as a Key to the Past
182
2
What Next?
184
2
Fossils: Classification
186
12
Fossil Formation
188
2
Fossil Discoveries: Reconstructing the Past
190
2
Evolution and the Fossil Record
192
2
Living Fossils and the Molecular Clock
194
2
``Progress'' and Catastrophe
196
2
Biographies
198
4
Places and Websites to Visit
202
2
Glossary
204
12
Further Reading and Bibliography
216
2
Index
218
6
Acknowledgments
224